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It's not an inability to believe it's true. It's more being burnt out by ritualized concern. It comes from seeing something awful that we're all supposed to be concerned about, listening to people beat their chest about it, and then the next day it's something else and those people have moved on to that and forgotten about yesterday's crisis.

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That's overtly cynical. The truth is, in many cases, we won't know what we should possibly be concerned about, unless we are offered the right information.

We all have our blind-spots, and we all have our partialities.

If 'ritualized concern' actually means, to you, that people aren't as concerned about your beliefs, as you think they should be, then that's quite different to a discussion about whether the whale in the visualisation, really feels the way I suspect it might.

If some people are responding to this study inappropriately that’s their problem. But when presented with this information I find it unhelpful for people to dismiss it and say things are fine. Things are not fine for the animals of this planet and I don’t think that should be dismissed, even if some types of people’s response to the information is annoying.

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